MNS official Raj Thackeray expressed his gratitude to the Uttar Pradesh prime minister for removing loudspeakers from religious sites, ‘especially masjids’. Maharashtra Navnirman Senator Raj Thackeray, whose call to remove loudspeakers from churches cleared up all Hanuman Chalisa controversy in the province and elsewhere on Thursday, congratulated and thanked Uttar Pradesh Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath for removing thousands of loudspeakers from UP religious venues. especially the masjids’. . “Unfortunately in Maharashtra, we have no yogi; we have ‘bhogis’ (hedonists). Here is hope and prayer for a good idea,” reads a message from Raj Thackeray.
In the past few days, the UP government has been able to remove more than 11,000 loudspeakers from religious sites while the volume of another 35,000 loudspeakers has been reduced to the required levels. The first to lower his speaker was Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi of Matra who decided not to broadcast MangalacharanAarti through the Bhagwat Bhavan microphones on the grounds of Sri Krishna Janmabhoomi.
In a speech at the GudiPadwa rally earlier this month, Raj Thackeray said his party’s staff would play Hanuman Chalisa in front of the mosques if the national government did not remove speakers from mosques in the province. Later, he also issued a proclamation to the state government to remove loudspeakers from mosques before May 3.
The Maha government VikasAghadi has refused to give any significance to the intimidation of Raj Thackeray and Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut fired Raj Thackeray by calling him ‘Owaisi of Maharashtra’. However, the controversy changed dramatically when an independent couple of legislators NavneetRana and Ravi Rana were arrested over the Hanuman Chalisa dispute. They had announced that they were going to the residence of Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray and sang Hanuman Chalisa. The operation was interrupted by Shiv Sena workers besieging Rana’s residence and later the Ranas were arrested.
